Endless, illegal, murderous and bankrupting war abroad; endless, brutal and bankrupting attacks on the vast majority at home—this is what we protest.

Ten years ago, with the illegitimate installation of Bush as “president,” Citizens for Legitimate Government made it its mission to expose the coup and to oppose the Bush occupation of the White House. We predicted that the installation of Bush was merely the precursor to an era of illegal and undemocratic undertakings on the part of the U.S. government–policies that had begun at home and that would extend across the globe. Unfortunately, we were right. And we were right to say that this era would not and has not ended with Obama. In fact, it continued unabated and gained in intensity.

In 2008, we witnessed a supposed change of guard with the election of Barack Obama. But even before the election took place, we suggested that Obama, rather than being an agent for change, was in fact a cleverly constructed mirage to enable the financial, corporate and military oligarchy to continue on the same course, in fact, to do so with without the degree of opposition that was building to the Bush regime. What we have witnessed is not ‘change you can believe in,’ but, where Obama and most Democrats in Congress are concerned, belief you can change.

From Bush to Obama, we have seen not a change in policies, not a reversal, not even a ‘failing’ to change course, but the exact opposite: a determined continuation, extension and increase of the very same policies.

Rather than an end to imperialist wars, we have witnessed the increase in scope and the extension of war into other countries. Rather than two wars, we now have four.

Rather than policies favouring ‘Main Street’ as promised, we have witnessed the unprecedented transfer of wealth into the coffers of the banks, corporations and military contractors. We have seen record corporate profits while social misery for the working classes continues to rise, with unemployment not seen since the Great Depression and record home foreclosures. We now have austerity imposed on the vast majority while those who caused the financial crisis with wars, bailouts and corruption, pay little or no taxes and enjoy record profits.

Instead of restoring civil liberties, we have seen their further erosion with the extension of the Patriot Act, the increase of surveillance on the web, and a declaration by the president of the right to assassinate American citizens without any legal sanction whatsoever.

Indefinite detentions have not only continued under Obama, but he has also made sure that proven innocence is no cause for release.

This is but a short summary of the reasons for SEIZE DC!

How to SEIZE DC?

We protest “peacefully,” although not passively. We do not accept marching orders. This is how we protest.

For 10 years, we have witnessed the absolute formalization of protests—the seeking of permits, the placing in quarantined zones, the appropriation of ‘free speech’ and the pro forma ‘right to dissent,’ treated as a purely formal and meaningless expression. We say, enough! We need no permission to free speech or the right of assembly. We seek no one’s permission and will not have our protest cordoned off from and made irrelevant to the functioning of a murderous and tyrannical oligarchy. We will not be corralled or controlled. Our protest is a seizure of DC, by which we mean an attempt to seize the attention of the city and the nation so that its policies of seize and destroy may end.

CLG Under Surveillance — CLG Sunshine Project – Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) will post .gov and .mil IPs visiting the Seize DC webpage, and others! The following IP addresses correspond to the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the President, the Naval Research Laboratory, and dozens of other governmental organizations accessing the CLG pages. This list comprises only a snapshot of the daily, routine surveillance carried on by the U.S. government on the CLG’s pages.

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After the court supported coup of 2000, many of us protested, but could find no avenue for our voices. Corporate Media was silent. The Internet was still young, and we obtained no traction to get the message out. The corrupt voter machine re-election of 2004 started waking people up, many had stood out in the rain to vote for hours, and people don’t do that to preserve the status quo. Until then, many hoped our election process would work. Diebold took care of that dream.
The Internet was more fully developed, more people were online, and we began to push back in 2006. Once the powers that be realized we would not accept another corrupt clinton or bush for president, they gave us obama. Obama moved in, re-established the clinton administration and kept many of the key bush people, including Ben Bernanke.

The first thing Obama did after taking his oath of office was to go to the WH and expand domestic NSA spying powers. I know, because I was watching. The world was raving over his pretty wife and children, the story got no mention in MSM.

I emailed in protest. He answered saying that he “promised” not to abuse the powers and that I was to trust him. The rest of the story you know. He has expanded his powers to levels even bush didn’t try; his right to execute anyone he deems a danger to this nation, without court, charges, or trial, just his opinion. When bush eliminated Habeas Corpus, (a right of man for over 800 years), I thought it could not get worse, but it has.

The onslaught on the middle class has continued unabated. Real unemployment is at 22% figuring in the underemployed, and long term unemployed, and could be higher. Over 9000 foreclosures a day and growing. An economist at Bloomberg said it will 103 months to clear the backlogged housing inventories not including the homes going default, but not yet in foreclosure. Since housing starts have brought us out of every recession since WWII, I don’t see one happening here for many years.

In the rules of history, it is essential to have a strong middle class to generate a successful revolution. The American Revolution was led and won by people with a vested interest in the economy, a strong middle class. Otherwise, you get uprisings without form or context. That is why the war on the middle class continues relentlessly.

My biggest concern is that we no longer have any rights. Our government can pick us up, lock us away for years without lawyer, charges, court or jury. The elimination of habeas corpus has taken those simple rights from us. I wonder how many Americans notice? Many seem oblivious, and I question if they know or care what habeas corpus was? Rights once lost are never regained without a struggle. They seem more interested in iPhones, Dancing with the Stars and computer games than civil rights. Without a vested interest in the system, they don’t care. Until they care, the status quo continues.

I think you people are great. You have great courage and cover stories nobody else will. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now is another. Please keep up the good work.